Of course thanks to decades of federal anti-farmer policy and the suicidal concept of consigning food production to “The Market” we have a vanishingly small percentage of experienced people who indulge in farming.Īnd so, I was interested to see local papers’ recent accounts of a nearby entrepreneur’s being awarded $250,000 under Maine’s “Clean Energy Innovation Challenge.” This reportedly will be added to the “nearly $500,000 from ‘passionate angel investors’ both locally and across the country.” Put another way, when we eat from the industrial-food system, we are eating oil and spewing greenhouse gasses.”
As Michael Pollan pointed out in his 2008 public “(Letter) To the Farmer-in-Chief,” we now have “… transformed a system that in 1940 produced 2.3 calories of food energy for every calorie of fossil-fuel energy it used into one that now takes 10 calories of fossil-fuel to produce a single calorie of supermarket food.
Most every calorie of food energy in America has long come at the cost of fossil energy.
